About a month ago now I wrote about a website called Aardvark that combines the power of social media with searching. Search engines by themselves are great, but you’ve got to know some of the tricks of working the Google machine and its counterparts.
I received an email earlier today from Aardvark’s CEO, Max Ventilla, letting me know that they are now equipped to work with and take advantage of the power of twitter. I never knew aardvarks and birds could have produced such a symbiotic relationship as this.
The formatting of how to use Aardvark with twitter is very straight forward. All you need to do is the following three items:
- ask a question
- make sure you have a question mark "?" in your tweet
- include @vark in your tweet
That’s it! Couldn’t be much simpler.
When you ask your question just sit back and relax. The folks at Aardvark will send your question to the right people and then direct message you back with their answer.
Great stuff. I’ve been trying to participate answering questions as much as possible when I can. Even when I can’t the interface and functionality of letting things go by or "passing" on them has been well thought out for the user base.
Before you get started, you do need to register with using Aardvark on your twitter account.